Publications of William Woodhouse

Note: The following printer, bookseller, or publisher lists are works in progress. They are generated from title page imprints and may reproduce false and misleading attributions or contain errors.

What does "printed by" mean? How to read the roles ascribed to people in the imprints.

In terms of the book trades, the lists below are sorted into up to four groups where: the person is designated in the imprint as having a single role:

  1. "printed by x"; or
  2. "sold by x"; or
  3. "printed for x" or "published by x";

or as having the seller and printer roles in combination, or an absence of the printer's name following "London: printed:" or "London: printed,":

  1. "printed and sold by x"; or "printed for and sold by x"; or "printed by and for x"; or "printed: and sold by x"; or "printed, and sold by x";  and so on.

On this last point, trade publishers may seem to have "printed" or "published" the work, though they did not own the copyright. The lists below reflect only the information on the imprint, except where ESTC provides extra information.

See also "The Meaning of the Imprint."

Printed by William Woodhouse

  • Woodhouse, James. An inaugural dissertation, on the chemical and medical properties of the persimmon tree, and the analysis of astringent vegetables; submitted to the examination of the Revd. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost; the trustees and medical professors, of the University of Pennsylvania; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine. By James Woodhouse, A.M. honorary member of the American and Philadelphia medical societies. [Two lines from Gray]. Philadelphia: Printed by William Woodhouse, [1792]. ESTC No. W19876. Grub Street ID 329499.

Sold by William Woodhouse

  • Eulogium and vindication of Masonry. Selected, (and improved) from various writers. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by William Woodhouse, M.DCC.XCII. [1792]. ESTC No. W32078. Grub Street ID 342540.

Printed for William Woodhouse

  • Cumberland, Richard. The fashionable lover; a comedy: as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By Richard Cumberland, author of the West Indian. Philadelphia:: Printed for William Woodhouse, in Front-Street, M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]. ESTC No. W17536. Grub Street ID 327081.